OKI and Mipsology of France Enter Japanese Market for FPGA-Based Machine Learning (ML) Development Support Service
As together we are enabling of ML processing for autonomous driving, medical, and video monitoring applications
OKI IDS, an OKI Group company providing firmware and hardware design and development services, has teamed with Mipsology SAS, the company providing the Zebra neural network machine learning accelerating software for use with FPGAs. The partners announced the signing of a technical partnership agreement on October 20, 2020, with the stated goal of entering the domestic Japanese high-speed ML-based image processing market. This agreement marks the launch of a design and development service intended to support faster ML processing based on FPGA technology in domestic Japanese markets for applications requiring high-speed image processing, including autonomous driving, remotely controlled robots, telemedicine, and video monitoring.
While ML developments to date have centered on CPUs/GPUs, ML applications that require real-time capabilities are driving demand for faster processing. FPGAs are devices capable of performing complex arithmetic processing in parallel for high-speed processing of large data volumes. Running ML programs on FPGAs allows processing six times faster or better (the ratio for current OIDS ML programs).
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The agreement will enable both companies to offer services that accelerate ML processing by running ML programs on FPGAs. OIDS installs and optimizes client ML programs running on FPGAs using Mipsology’s Zebra platform to meet customer performance requirements with short lead times. OIDS offers FPGA intellectual property (IP) design and development services related to high-speed image transmission and communications processing, primarily in Japan, while Mipsology offers acceleration platforms for ML processing, primarily in Europe and in the US. The partnership will seek to expand ML development support services by meeting the demand for faster ML, a market sector expected to see significant future growth in Japan.
Xilinx, the world leader in FPGAs, and Avnet, a global provider of technology solutions centering on Xilinx, commented as follows in response to this announcement.
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“We’re delighted to learn about the technical partnership between OIDS, a premium design service partner of Xilinx, and Mipsology, our ML acceleration partner for Alveo accelerator cards.*2 Working together we look forward to expanding access to and use of edge AI*3 devices utilizing our FPGAs and Alveo cards across a wide range of industries.”
Hiroshi Hayashida
Japan Country Lead
Xilinx K.K.
“We’re confident the development solutions proposed by OIDS, backed by its extensive experience with high-speed image processing and vision interface design,*4 together with Mipsology’s Zebra high-performance ML engine, will provide essential solutions in the development of ultra-low-latency processing systems for customers.”
Yasumoto Mogi
Regional President, Avnet Japan
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